Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not long ago , my parents were driving home late at night when , for no apparent reason , a car full of men tried to force them off the road . |
| 2 | And why should I try to throw you off the scent ? |
| 3 | Far from moderating his condemnation of Mansell 's start-line performance in Estoril the previous week , the world champion stuck to his allegation that Mansell had deliberately tried to push him off the track . |
| 4 | In case we become aware of its tricks , the Ego tries to throw us off the scent , by projecting aspects of itself onto the outside world . |
| 5 | The prize , however , was taken by the Lithuanian who decided to liven up Roger Payne 's ascent of Comes The Dervish by trying to pull him off the crux . |
| 6 | No , he was n't trying to run her off the road ; he was trying to kill her . |
| 7 | When Nora 's dress fell to her knees he pulled her swiftly to him , trying to lift her off the ground . |
| 8 | Retired school secretary Anne Stern , 73 , was on her way to spend Thanksgiving with relatives when two shabbily-dressed youths pulled in front of her and began trying to force her off the road . |
| 9 | Which was something of a racket , plus Bazooka Joe kept on pulling the plugs on us trying to get us off the stage . |
| 10 | There was a large pool of unemployed in those days and it seemed to us that no sooner were you in than they were trying to get you off the job . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't you dare ! ’ she squealed , trying to push him off the edge of the sun-lounger and into the swimming-pool , which was how the accident yesterday had happened , fooling around by the poolside like a couple of kids when Ruth had slipped on a supposedly non-slip surface and wrenched her ankle . |
| 12 | He was trying to move it off the path . |